There is nothing outrageous about your suggestions. An article in the January 16th issue of New Scientist says much the same thing. They call it a missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is the brain. But I'm tempted to go further than that. Scientists have no choice but to believe there has to be some mechanism like this, and since quantum mechanics is well known, it doesn't risk you career to propose quantum mechanisms for associative memory. However there have been other brain capabilities that are routinely rejected on the basis that there is no known mechanism. That, I believe, is the really exciting part of this. Time well tell.

(Please follow me at @MayerSpivack on Twitter for further articles and discussion) Perhaps I am overreacting to a query at the end of an article discussing the implications of Quantum entanglement in organic environments—Technology Review by K. Birgitta Whaley et al. at the Berkeley Center...